Help with hotkeys and selected text!

[LeysonBarrios]

Is there a way to use(access) the hotkeys when you have text selected? Using a hotkey when you have text selected replaces the selected text with the hotkey. Is there a workaroud for this?

[Rene Andritsch]

What do you want to achieve when pressing your hot keys while text is selected? Please give an example.

[LeysonBarrios · Accepted solution]

I want to use the eyedropper tool to copy formatting to the selected text.

[Rene Andritsch]

I just click the Eyedropper Tool to do this because the shortcut “I” does not work if text is selected. You could define a separate shortcut (for instance CMD+ALT+I) with “Text” as context. Then you will be able to use a shortcut. But I guess clicking the Eyedropper Tool might just be as fast.

 

[Peter Spier]

You should be able to use keyboard shortcuts that are defined for the Text and Tables area that contain one of the Alt/Opt or Ctrl/Cmd keys.